User:John Cummings/TMIG

Tagline: Two giants meet online: UNESCO contributes to Wikimedia projects

Mohana fishermen hunters use lures from real birds to catch more birds
Primary school-age population, in school vs out of school, girls vs boys in Guinea
Illustration from Nzinga Mbandi Queen of Ndongo and Matamba
Visit of Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations to UNESCO

John Cummings has been working for the past four months as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO funded by a Wikimedia Foundation project and event grant. This is his testimony:

I've been working at UNESCO to help staff understand more about using and contributing to Wikimedia and assisting them in making their content available on Wikimedia Commons. Currently we have upload over 1000 files to Commons covering a wide range of content, including photographs, videos, infographics and illustrations with many more being made available over the coming months.

I created Wikiproject UNESCO which is designed to be accessible for people new to contributing to Wikiedia projects and covers several Wikimedia projects. It is structured around activities including writing, translation and sharing UNESCO media and has clear and simple instructions for all tasks. It has several tools to help people in all langauges improve information on UNESCO programme enscriptions e.g World Heritage Sites and to help navigate and organise sharing of UNESCO media content on Wikimedia projects. The

I'd encourage everyone to share the content that UNESCO has made available on Wikimedia projects to show the value of releasing work under an open license.

I think that Wikimedia has a unique role to play in worldwide education which many organisations are working towards as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. I hope that by working with UNESCO to understand how they can use and contribute to Wikimedia projects it will encourage other intergovernmental organisations to do the same.

Get involved: There are many ways to get involved outline at Wikiproject UNESCO, the most ??urgent?? or which are:

Reuse the content released by UNESCO across many languages
Help with Mix n' Match

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